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Bluegrass State Becomes Third State to Pass a Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Data Law in 2024

On April 4, 2024, Kentucky’s Governor signed House Bill 15, which establishes a consumer data privacy law for the state. The state joins New Hampshire and New Jersey in passing comprehensive consumer privacy laws in 2024....more

New Hampshire Passes Comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy Law

On March 6, 2024, New Hampshire’s Governor signed Senate Bill 255, which establishes a consumer data privacy law for the state. The Granite State joins the myriad of state consumer data privacy laws. It is the second state in...more

California Privacy Protection Act Ends 2022 Without CPRA Regulations, But CPPA Targets Risk Assessments and AI for Additional...

On December 16, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) had its final meeting before the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) which amended the California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect on January 1, 2023....more

California Consumer Privacy Act FAQs: Employment Information

1. What’s changing? Under the current version of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), an employer’s obligations related to the personal information it collects from employees, applicants, and contractors residing...more

Connecticut Likely to Become Fifth State to Enact Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law

When the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) became law, it was only a matter of time before other states adopted their own statutes intending to enhance privacy rights and consumer protection for their residents. ...more

Responding to the Kronos Cyber Attack – What Should Employers Be Thinking About?

According to reports, Kronos, the cloud-based, HR management service provider, suffered a data incident involving ransomware affecting its information systems. Kronos communicated that it discovered the incident late on...more

Baltimore Officially Bans Private Use Of Facial Recognition Technology

Yesterday, Baltimore’s local ordinance prohibiting persons from “obtaining, retaining, accessing, or using certain face surveillance technology or any information obtained from certain face surveillance technology,” became...more

Texas Joins Other States With New Texas Data Breach Notification Requirement: Is This A New Trend?

The Texas Legislature, which meets every other year, pushed a change to its data breach notification law at the end of the session in late May, and yesterday Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill into law...more

Is New York Next? A Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Bill Reintroduced

On May 13th, New York State Senator Kevin Thomas, Chair of NY’s Consumer Protection Committee, reintroduced the New York Privacy Act (“NYPA”), a comprehensive consumer privacy law similar in kind to the California Consumer...more

The Circuit Split Continues: 11th Circuit Weighs In On Standing In Data Breach Litigation

The 11th Circuit recently weighed in on the hottest issue is data breach litigation, whether a demonstration of actual harm is required to have standing to sue. Joining several other circuit courts, the 11th Circuit in Tsao...more

CDC Expands Guidance On Informed Consent To Support Workplace SARS-CoV-2 Testing

As employers continue to grapple with a safe return to the workplace, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidance for businesses and employers on SARS-CoV-2 testing of employees, as part of a...more

Class Action Trends Report Fall 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter work lives in profound ways, employers are confronted with additional liability risks. The pandemic has created a wave of litigation that is unlikely to ebb until well after the...more

More EEOC COVID-19 Guidance: Testing, Screening, Managers, Confidentiality, And Telework

Since March of this year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released guidance on a near-monthly basis addressing various FAQs concerning COVID-19 issues. The guidance has focused on disability-related...more

Class Action Trends Report Winter 2020

Our quarterly report discusses new developments in class action litigation and offers strategic guidance and tactical tips on how to defend such claims. This issue covers using data analytics, including the following...more

Two More Significant Rulings For TCPA Litigation – Eleventh And Seventh Circuits Narrowly Interpret ATDS

In back-to-back decisions bound to have significant impact on Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action litigation, the Eleventh and Seventh Circuit Courts recently reached similar conclusions, narrowly holding...more

CCPA Data Breach Class Action Litigation Begins

As reported by Bloomberg Law, data breach class action litigation has begun under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Filed in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, a putative class action...more

Class Action Trends Report Summer 2019

Our quarterly report discusses new developments in class action litigation and offers strategic guidance and tactical tips on how to defend such claims. This issue covers the following topics: •California Consumer Privacy...more

CCPA Update – Maybe Employees Are “Consumers” After All – Employee PI Is Still In Play

Employers, you are not out of the CCPA woods yet. If you have been tracking the proposed amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you know that businesses and stakeholders have been clamoring to shape the...more

U.S. Supreme Court Roundup – 2018-2019

The U.S. Supreme Court term that ended in June 2019 included decisions on many topics important to workplace law, including class actions, arbitration, and administrative exhaustion and Title VII claims. ...more

More Updates To The CCPA May Be Ahead

Ever since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was enacted in June of 2018 it has been in a constant state of revision. First, in September of 2018, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 1121, which helped...more

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Zappos Data Breach Litigation To Proceed

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition for a writ of certiorari by Zappos requesting the Court to review a Ninth Circuit Court decision which allowed customers affected by a data breach to proceed with a...more

Third Circuit Rules In Favor Of Employer Who Monitored Former Employees’ Social Media Accounts

On February 25, 2019, the Third Circuit held that a New Jersey engineering firm that monitored its former employees’ social media accounts was not barred from winning an injunction to prevent four former employees from...more

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